PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



A NEW edition of this work has been required, but it was 

 thought unnecessary to make any extensive alterations in 

 the text and plates. The present opportunity has, how- 

 ever, been taken to correct a few errors which had been 

 overlooked in the first edition, and to add an Appendix 

 giving further particulars respecting many of the insects 

 mentioned or figured. A complete Index has also been 

 prepared, in addition to the Table of Contents, which it 

 is hoped will increase the usefulness of the book. 



W. F. KIEBY. 



London, May, 1892. 



